Mamdani is going to fail because he will never be able to make New York look like this, which is the only way to make housing cheap
>>522087479Doesn't it already look like that? I don't get it
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>>522087479Have you ever even been here? The Cross-Bronx has looked like the USSR for 60 years
>>522087691A lot of NYC is either single family homes or rowhouses. You could theoretically build more densely.
>>522087691>spend 10 years applying for a housing lottery>just to live in a 6-story apartment building complex that houses 6000 people in a city of 8 million>still get deniedwow bro you totally just proved me wrong with that one picture. never mind. you're right. housing in NYC is cheap and accessible because of those buildings. totally comparable to pic related.
>>522087747>>522088055have you? this is pretty much what the entire city looks like.
>>522088484I posted 2 pictures, the second which shows buildings taller than 6 storeys. >. housing in NYC is cheap and accessible because of those buildings.No, it's unaffordable despite those buildings. You could cover the whole city in these and it still wouldn't be cheap. NYC is the financial capital of the world, poors can't compete with global finance. You will find housing is Moscow is much more expensive than the national average, too, despite having tons of high rises. Concentration of finance causes wealth inequality which prices poors out of housing.
>>522089089I don't disagree with much of your point but I wouldn't discount the higher rent burden in NYC vs Moscow, and the difference that Moscow's housing stock and their zoning and construction have impacted that. I don't care much because these are wretched places that no real human bean should bother living in. I'd rather live in some Mexican pueblo than be packed into public housing with urban browns. Just amusing that anyone unironically expects even for 1 second that Mamdani will make a dent in the crisis NYC housing.
>>522087479Let me tell you a big secret: Every politician in NYC would love to get rid of Rent Stabilization. The tax base would explode and the city would become a paradise as millions of deadbeats are pushed out. It would not just be a city for the rich but huge swaths of basically wasted land would be back on the market.The only way to accomplish this is by having the Federal courts rule Rent Stabilization to be illegal. It's political folly to even imply you would want this but any serious Administrator or even city resident who is not a complete idiot knows that this is a good thing.It's almost impossible to imagine how great it would be for New York. I live here and I live in a rent stabilized apartment, because not doing so is very stupid if you can do math. Even so I'd love nothing more than to see the mass population turnover that would result from ending it.
>>522089089>poors can't compete with global financeYour flag already implied that you were a braindead pajeet but this comment is so dumb. There is nothing at all preventing us from allowing the entire global finance world to use NYC apartments as their piggy bank for stolen funds from their third world shitholes. There are so many units "off market" more or less in NY that the supply is far more restricted than it should be. If you put literally millions of units back on the market at normal rates I don't think the average rent would increase much overall.
>>522087479build more and denser and taller >breed and import more humansbuild more and denser and taller >breed and import more humansbuild more and denser and taller >breed and import more humansbuild more and denser and taller >breed and import more humans
>>522087479He has the backing of the president of course he can't lose.
>>522092155Everyone on the east coast will continue to work in new york city. The only way to solve the problem is by moving work to the outskirts or building fast transport systems so it only takes 45 minutes to commute from rural Pennsylvania or Maine to new york city.Bullet trains would work.
>>522093040NYC is already served by 3 separate suburban commuter transit systems. The problem is the suburbs are where the money is and they don't want apartment-dwelling riffraffs.
>>522093486The system is too slow to work, I've seen it. It's just as bad as the one we have. Germans and spanish have faster systems.
>>522093691You can get from Penn Station to Edison, NJ in 45 minutes. It's fast enough.
>>522093691the trains are fine
>>522094119That's 45 minutes that should be 15.You can only lower the door to door time by increasing the speeds of the transport medium.>>522095748It's not really fast enough. I've talked to new jersey commuters and they say it's not easy.
>>522087479the exact same perspective nowand in the worse weather so this is as ugly as this area gets now.the skyscraper being built is a 150m called Upper One, it'll end up being 2x what it is now and these worst commieblocks in Warsaw will finally get obscured at least from this perspective!
>>522095973Most New Jersey commuters take a bus.
>>522096093The only bad thing about commie blocks is how bad life is for the people on the lower floors. They don't get any sunlight.
>>522096195we have laws in place that require developers to respect access to sunlight of residents in the neighboring buildings
